What Will the Border Look Like Next Year?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns border security and illegal immigration. Good news today is President-elect Donald Trump naming Tom Holman as the “border czar.” Holman is a veteran immigration official with a law enforcement career spanning several decades. Trump’s announcement brought cheers from border patrol officers who recognize that Holman will allow them to do their jobs.

While Holman directs events at the borders and helps Trump to close the borders, they will also be deporting many of the illegal immigrants who are committing crimes across the United States. Simon Hankinson of The Heritage Foundation published an article at The Daily Signal that included the following information. 

There were 959 carjackings in Washington, D.C., last year – up from 148 in 2018. Shoplifting is so bad that stores in some neighborhoods have closed. The CVS on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House, keeps Charmin toilet paper and trash bags in locked cabinets.

Not surprisingly, though, to the dismay of progressive activists, it’s not just conservatives who want crime prevented, prosecuted, and punished. After a disastrous experiment under far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin, even ultraliberal San Francisco had had enough of rampant lawlessness and fired him back in 2022.

On Tuesday, almost-as-woke Los Angels replaced its deliberately feckless, far-left District Attorney George Glascon with a “former federal prosecutor who ran on a platform of ‘restoring safety and justice,’” according to local station KTLA.

In elections across America, the Democrats tried to reduce everything to identity politics. Anyone voting against their candidates, they claimed, did so because of racism or misogyny, not because they preferred conservative policies.

But the truth is, people of all races and both sexes don’t like being victims of crime. It’s a universal value.

Just as they prefer ineffective alternatives to punishing crime, the American Left does not want immigration enforcement either. If she had been elected, Kamala Harris had promised to support a Senate border bill that she claimed would have fixed the border she and Joe Biden broke.

Not only would the bill have failed to do that … but it would have made taxpayers foot the bill for lawyers so millions of economic migrants Biden let in could make unmerited or fraudulent asylum claims and drag them out in immigration court as long as possible.

Holmon is no pushover, and he knows the law. When recently asked if there was any way to deport illegal aliens without separating families, Holmon did not miss a beat in stating that families can be deported together. I look forward to seeing what Holmon will do with the border problems.